Keitel lends his trademark intensity to his hard-boiled role as a cheated thief out for justice and revenge in director John Irvin's flavorful L.A.-set caper. Thesps Famke Janssen and Timothy Hutton, in a rare bad-guy role, lend solid support.

Saturday

3:45 p.m. (TCM) "The African Queen" (1951). Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn. Prim spinster Hepburn and vulgar boatman Bogie brave the African backwaters, enemy Germans and each other in John Huston's witty, ageless adventure classic.

8:00 (ENC) "Independence Day" (1996). Will Smith, Bill Pullman. Ace pilot Smith, hacker Jeff Goldblum and high-flying U.S. Prez Pullman look to save the planet from a particularly nasty batch of aggressive extraterrestrials in Roland Emmerich's gleefully pulpy, over-the-top alien-invasion epic.

Malibu Hybrid's minimal advantage isn't worth the cost

We have established that General Motors knows how to make a two-mode hybrid. Witness the Green Car of the Year, the Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid, which utilizes a powerful electric motor in concert with an internal combustion engine.

Sealing house can enhance air quality, inhibit mold growth

Dear Jim: My children have allergies to mold. I want to make my house more airtight for better energy efficiency, but I heard this can exacerbate mold problems. What safe efficiency improvements can I make? - Karla S.

Dear Karla: People often think airtight, musty, mold-ridden indoor air quality is the price one has to pay for greater energy efficiency. Actually, making your house more energy efficient can positively affect air quality.First test your house for mold. Several laboratories offer home mold test kits. For a "viable" test, you grow your house test samples in a petri dish. At IMS Laboratory, it costs only about $10 for the kit. If you find mold growth, they charge about $35 more to analyze the mold types. Some types of mold cause few problems, while others are quite toxic.A better test is "nonviable" test, where the sample is analyzed for many types of mold.

Chinese cars attractive at Cairo Int'l Motor Show

Shining shape, fine quality, good price and satisfactory performance of Chinese cars attracted many visitors at the 15th Cairo International Motor Show yesterday, the first day open to the public.

At the entrance of Hall 4 of the Motor show held at the Cairo International Convention & Exhibition Center, a large brand of "Geely" and its auto model picture drew the attention of the visitors.

"We trust Geely, not only its price but also the quality and performance, that's why we chose to be an Egyptian agent of the car," Ali El Dosoky, sales manager of an Egyptian Motors company, told Xinhua.

Dosoky said although his company has recently begun marketing the Geely cars, which entered the Egyptian market three years ago,he has confidence on the prospect of Geely cars' sale.

Also on display is another model of Chinese car with the brand of UFO and the Egyptian name "Grand XPlosion."

After test-driving inside a "Grand XPlosion", Zena, a Lebanese lady who is working at an accounting company in Cairo, told Xinhua that she has been thinking of buying a Chinese car.

Your Comments : Common thread binds team

Speaking of which, best thing to move the country forward is to scrap this cabinet altogether. Katalina talked about it in last week's topical discussion. Rabuka and Qarase sounding the same tune today. All of us are on deck because we genuinely feel for the sufferings on the ground which affects us as our monthly salaries are divided several ways to meet our family's needs in Fiji.